It's just a money grab. It won't change anything except drive people across the border to buy beer.

Ain't that the truth. I mean cigarettes are like 3-4 times what I paid back when I started smoking. The cost is so outrageous now that I just don't understand how teens would ever start the habit. And yet they do. That tells me that increasing the tax on beer just wont have a much of an impact on teen drinking. Of course, like EdWort said: 'It's just a money grab'. The teen drinking thing is just an excuse for raising taxes.

Kids will still buy it. They'll find a way to channel this money into some other place eventually. I disagree with the idea that you can throw money at this kind of problem and make it go away. Like Bowie said, " And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations they're quite aware of what they're going through."

They don't want to hear a bunch of adults preaching to them about the evils of drinking.

During a similar discussion on a local talk radio show the host opined "I was never richer than when I was a teen ager -- I had a part time job, no rent, no car payment, all my take home pay was mine to spend." A small increase in taxes would not deter a teen and would be more harmful to working class adults.